10 Links You Should Click

One of my bad habits is racking numerous open tabs up in my browsers. It’s something I’ve tried to curb in The 2014 100, but it still creeps in if left unchecked.

After chatting with a friend who misses the short posts I used to put out with 100 Happy Days, she got me thinking on what I could put out that was short and sweet but could still be valuable to my readers.

So in that spirit, here’s 10 Links You Should Click, a (maybe weekly) look at the stuff I come across and think you should check out. It could be things I want to make or do, or maybe stuff I just discovered that made me pause.

May these links titillate and thrill you, excite and entice you — and give me a reason to do this again!

I’m one of those strange people lacking a sweet tooth — I prefer tarter tastes, particularly lemon. Last I was in Paris, I had amazing macarons chez Pierre Herme and Ladurée — I could buy them in my ‘hood at Patisserie la Cigogne, but it’d definitely add up after a while.

So if I gave it the time and concentration, this would make for a perfect use of our Kitchen-Aid stand mixer!

The likelihood for me to actually make it is low, but at least I’ve got a good recipe, right?

Though not classically trained in graphic nor web design (I majored in business and social science under duress), it’s been a long-standing interest, with my first website designed as a high school project in 1998.

Yeas later, I’ve an iPad stuffed with ebooks on all aspects of the trade by SitePoint and Smashing Magazine, and a thirst for upgrading my site that’s not easily quenched.

These tools and courses are solid places to start your quest if you’re looking to design your own work — that last one’s a link from my friend Ria, who’s making inroads with the development community herself!

Though an amateur programmer at best, I’ve learned a lot about things at their most elementary level, like CRON jobs — the things you use to automate processes online. There’s a project I’ve tried doing manually in the past, and it just got too big to bother anymore.

Though I’m not good enough to code it yet, I head CRON jobs aren’t the most reliable tools, and looked for a better way to make it work. This looked like a likely candidate!

Christine alerted me of Canada’s new anti-spam legislation some time back, prompting me to do some research on what to expect come July 1st. After crying wolf a few times, I feel like I’ll be okay should I follow a few new rules, but if you don’t know, you better know — getting fined up to $50,000 a day ain’t funny!

If you remember my Father’s Day post with stats on Toronto fatherhood, you might be interested to know that Toronto dove even deeper, providing stats for each of their wards! There’s a follow-up project I have in mind that’d rely on this data, but for now, it’s just good to explore and get to know the city a little better!

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Calling the Great White North his home, Casey‘s spent the last few decades in pursuit of creating killer content. From novels as a kid, comics as a teen, to blogs and photos once he could grow a beard, he’ll use whatever’s around him to create amazing stuff. When he’s not creating, he’s parenting, exploring and trying to make life as awesome as possible for everyone around him. Because a boring life’s not a life worth living!